Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 695 439 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 11.01% 14.29% 11.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.36% 51.95% 45.14%
Number of salaries quoted 353 323 726
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,408 845 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.30% 27.50% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 838 612 1,518
10th Percentile £27,925 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,591 £79,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +1 170 £40,000 -5.88% 21
Hertfordshire -1 157 £60,000 +9.09% 56
Cambridgeshire -2 148 £53,000 +11.58% 36
Suffolk +37 102 £47,739 -4.52% 10
Norfolk +1 87 £55,500 +59.64% 21
Bedfordshire +1 29 £34,000 -35.85% 22
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 83 (11.94%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.73%) WordPress
4 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.86%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.29%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.29%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (23.31%) Microsoft 365
2 133 (19.14%) Power Platform
3 114 (16.40%) Azure AI
4 97 (13.96%) Entra ID
5 86 (12.37%) AWS
6 64 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (5.90%) OneDrive
8 40 (5.76%) PowerApps
9 37 (5.32%) Power Automate
10 34 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 22 (3.17%) GitHub
12 20 (2.88%) GCP
13 19 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.73%) SaaS
14 15 (2.16%) IaaS
15 14 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.50%) Firewall
2 38 (5.47%) DNS
2 38 (5.47%) VPN
3 25 (3.60%) DHCP
4 19 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.01%) WAN
6 13 (1.87%) Internet
7 12 (1.73%) VoIP
8 11 (1.58%) LAN
9 9 (1.29%) Wireless
10 8 (1.15%) VLAN
11 7 (1.01%) Broadband
11 7 (1.01%) Network Security
12 6 (0.86%) DMZ
13 4 (0.58%) MQTT
13 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.58%) WLAN
14 3 (0.43%) SSL
15 2 (0.29%) L2TP
15 2 (0.29%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (16.98%) Power BI
2 85 (12.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.50%) Tableau
4 41 (5.90%) MongoDB
5 28 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.01%) MySQL
10 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.86%) Looker
10 6 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.43%) Big Data
12 3 (0.43%) Metadata
12 3 (0.43%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (1.87%) Git
1 13 (1.87%) JIRA
2 6 (0.86%) MLflow
3 5 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.29%) Selenium
4 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) git-flow
5 1 (0.14%) JMeter
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 369 (53.09%) Social Skills
2 77 (11.08%) Finance
3 32 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.31%) Law
5 16 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.16%) Marketing
6 15 (2.16%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.87%) Legal
7 13 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.44%) Retail
9 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.86%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.72%) Advertising
12 4 (0.58%) Banking
12 4 (0.58%) Games
12 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 165 (23.74%) Analyst
2 130 (18.71%) Junior
3 128 (18.42%) Junior Analyst
4 118 (16.98%) Developer
5 83 (11.94%) IT Support
6 70 (10.07%) Security Analyst
7 66 (9.50%) Data Analyst
8 64 (9.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 64 (9.21%) Junior Data Analyst
8 64 (9.21%) Junior Security Analyst
9 60 (8.63%) Ethical Hacker
10 58 (8.35%) Senior
11 56 (8.06%) .NET Developer
12 44 (6.33%) IT Engineer
13 41 (5.90%) Support Engineer
14 40 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
15 32 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
15 32 (4.60%) Lead
15 32 (4.60%) Network Engineer
16 31 (4.46%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.23%) .NET
2 74 (10.65%) .NET Core
3 70 (10.07%) CSS
4 61 (8.78%) HTML
5 54 (7.77%) ASP.NET
6 53 (7.63%) ASP.NET Core
7 29 (4.17%) RESTful
8 28 (4.03%) React
9 24 (3.45%) Entity Framework
9 24 (3.45%) ML.NET
9 24 (3.45%) Node.js
10 22 (3.17%) HTML5 Canvas
10 22 (3.17%) JSON
11 19 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 19 (2.73%) SPFx
12 18 (2.59%) Blazor
13 17 (2.45%) REST
14 14 (2.01%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.73%) Vue
16 11 (1.58%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.63%) Cyberattack
2 37 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 14 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (1.01%) Clustering
7 7 (1.01%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.01%) PKI
7 7 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.01%) Robotics
8 6 (0.86%) Blog
8 6 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.86%) iPhone
8 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (17.41%) Windows
2 76 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (2.30%) Linux
5 14 (2.01%) Android
6 10 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.72%) VMS
9 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (29.93%) Cybersecurity
2 175 (25.18%) AI
3 122 (17.55%) Mentoring
4 121 (17.41%) Business Intelligence
5 104 (14.96%) Agile
6 91 (13.09%) DevOps
7 74 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (10.22%) CI/CD
9 62 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (8.63%) Ethical Hacking
11 58 (8.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (8.06%) Machine Learning
13 42 (6.04%) Roadmaps
14 39 (5.61%) Computer Science
15 35 (5.04%) Project Management
15 35 (5.04%) User Experience
16 33 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 31 (4.46%) Customer Service
18 31 (4.46%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 211 (30.36%) SQL
2 136 (19.57%) Python
3 119 (17.12%) C#
4 60 (8.63%) JavaScript
5 52 (7.48%) PowerShell
6 33 (4.75%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.60%) PHP
8 14 (2.01%) Java
9 10 (1.44%) C++
10 8 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.01%) R
12 3 (0.43%) Bash
12 3 (0.43%) Bicep
12 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.43%) Ruby
13 2 (0.29%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 261 (37.55%) Azure Certification
2 71 (10.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 69 (9.93%) Degree
4 65 (9.35%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.63%) CEH
6 40 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (5.32%) Security Cleared
8 35 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (4.89%) CCNA
10 28 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (4.03%) Network+ Certification
11 21 (3.02%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.44%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.01%) CCNP
13 7 (1.01%) CISSP
14 6 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.02%) GDPR
2 20 (2.88%) QA
2 20 (2.88%) SLA
3 17 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.87%) NIST
6 12 (1.73%) GRC
7 9 (1.29%) NCSC
8 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.58%) PMO
12 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.14%) IFRS
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 115 (16.55%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.32%) Hyper-V
3 27 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.16%) Docker
4 15 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.86%) vSphere
7 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 45 (6.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.02%) Terraform
4 9 (1.29%) Ansible
5 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.58%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 495 (71.22%) Microsoft
2 148 (21.29%) ForeScout
3 46 (6.62%) Cisco
4 32 (4.60%) VMware
5 24 (3.45%) Apple
6 19 (2.73%) Adobe
7 18 (2.59%) Databricks
8 15 (2.16%) Google
9 12 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.58%) Meraki
10 11 (1.58%) SAP
11 10 (1.44%) Veeam
12 9 (1.29%) Epicor
12 9 (1.29%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.01%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.86%) Aruba
14 6 (0.86%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.86%) Dell
14 6 (0.86%) Facebook
14 6 (0.86%) Salesforce